There's a word for disbelief in Santa and other faery tales. Sane.

(August 5, 2011 at 10:31 am)Rhythm Wrote: There's a word for disbelief in Santa and other faery tales. Sane.

Lol. Is it too early in my posting career then to reccommend these forums be changed to the "sane" forums?

That would be deceptive, some posters are atheists, but not all are sane.

(August 5, 2011 at 10:36 am)Rhythm Wrote: That would be deceptive, some posters are atheists, but not all are sane.

Santa believer: "Those crazy atheists"

By any standard definition of the word, atheism is not a religion.

We need churches- or temples, or mosques or . . . well, buildings basically.

A place where we can gather together once a week and teach the truth as we know it. Kind of a anti-church, with stained glass representations of single-celled organisms.

Imagine the great cutesy sayings we could come up with for the sign outside the building:

"God called- he said you were a gullible idiot."

"Be kind to your brother. At least he exists."

"In reality we trust."

You are standing in the largest anti-church that could possibly exist. Churches are built as a way of separating that which is inside, from that which is outside. A wall insulates the faithful from the faithless. A wall can be made of brick, stained glass, or ignorance; but a wall by any other name......

(August 3, 2011 at 7:44 pm)The_Flying_Skeptic Wrote: Theists have told me "Atheism is a religion."

Problem here is, and we get them coming in here all the time, is that most theists who argue this don't know, and usually don't want to know, what atheism actually means. They only care about proselytizing their beliefs and reinforcing those by trying to be intellectually dishonest by wanting to either hear an admission of guilt or the magic words "I don't know" from us. They are not here to learn.

I had a similar conversation with a batshit crazy Christian woman who didn't understand she was a monotheist. Any attempt to try and help her understand the differences between theism and atheism and what the labels actually meant she would change the subject or follow up with a non sequitur response.

We wouldn’t have even graced a month before someone comes barging in here trying to tell us we’re just atheists because we want to sin. There's no point trying to reason with people like that.

(August 6, 2011 at 11:17 am)Rhythm Wrote: You are standing in the largest anti-church that could possibly exist. Churches are built as a way of separating that which is inside, from that which is outside. A wall insulates the faithful from the faithless. A wall can be made of brick, stained glass, or ignorance; but a wall by any other name......

Well, okay then!

(August 4, 2011 at 12:14 am)Epimethean Wrote: So now that skeptic has spent about a dozen messages arguing with Shell about post deletion, where does he stand on this august topic of the glorious areligion of the unbelievers?

Of course it's not a religion!

(Shell still needs lessons in class though )